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Transcript of interview with Sara Denton by Claytee White, July 13, 2015

Date

2015-07-13

Description

Sara Denton loves life, laughter, and wonderful adventures. She is the mother of four children, a Distinguished Nevadan, lover of books and art, political campaign organizer, community activist, and friend. Sara is one of the founders of Boulder City’s most successful philanthropic fundraisers, Art in the Park. Denton was born in Paducah, Kentucky, into a family of readers and thinkers. Therefore, when the opportunity arose, at 18 years of age, to move the Washington, DC to work in the Signal Corps, she seized the opportunity. From the vantage point of her apartment, she could see the Secret Service assisting Franklin D. Roosevelt into his limousine at the back door of the White House. His polio was hidden from the public but this diversion allowed Sara and her friends to greet and be greeted by their hero. While in DC, Sara worked for General Hayes and one day struck up a conversation with a young soldier, Ralph Denton. Soon they married and moved to his home state, Nevada. After several years in Elko, NV, the Dentons moved to Las Vegas where Sara worked in the campaigns of Grant Sawyer, Howard Cannon, and Alan Bible. Moving the family to Boulder City though, was the wisest relocation by the family because the children grew up in a caring community with good schools. And the city provided the opportunity for Sara’s creativity to flow in many directions including travel, entrepreneurship, philanthropy, and community building efforts. This interview is filled with laughter. I enjoyed the conversation.

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Photograph of Charles F. Peterson and others, Boulder City, Nevada, 1948

Date

1948

Description

Charles F. Peterson, the Chief Ranger in Boulder City (center), posing beside two other unidentified men in Boulder City, Nevada.

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Postcard of miners in Virginia City, Nevada, circa 1920s-1930s

Date

1920 to 1939

Description

A group photograph of unidentified miners on shift in Virginia City, Nevada. Printed on the front of the card: "Miners on shift - Virginia City, Nevada."

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Photograph of UNLV Special Collections, July 29, 1987

Date

1987-07-29

Description

Description provided with image: "L-R Mary Lou Williams, sister of the late Nanelia Doughty; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis, Special Collections Librarian. The occasion is donation of papers of the late Nan Doughty to UNLV Special Collections. July 29, 1987." Another description provided on an accompanying sheet of paper: "[July 29, 1987, L-R: Mary Lou Williams; Norton Williams; Susan Jarvis]. Currently being processed, the Nan Doughty Collection, donated by her sister, Mary Lou Williams, contains a century's worth of correspondence from the Bradford-Shockley family. The Bradords and Shockleys were intimately involved in mining and land development in Nevada, New Mexico, California, and Oregon, and had been New England shipbuilders in the early 19th century. May Bradford Shockley was the United States' first female surveyor: her letters detail life in Tonopah, Nevada in the early 1900s. her husband, mining engineer William Shockley, traveled the world, and his correspondence describes, among other places, life in and around Candelaria, Nevada in the 1880s. The collection also includes hundreds of early Nevada photographers, mining documents, and maps."

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Bunker Mountain Home, 1994 July 23

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File

Archival Collection

Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
To request this item in person:
Collection Number: MS-00843
Collection Name: Alton Dean Jensen Architectural Records
Box/Folder: Roll 040

Archival Component

Slide of the Frontier Motel, Carson City, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of the neon sign advertising the Frontier Motel, located in Carson City, Nevada. The sign features a cowboy with a neon lasso.

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Slide of the Frontier Motel, Carson City, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of the neon sign advertising the Frontier Motel, located in Carson City, Nevada. The sign features a cowboy with a neon lasso.

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Slide of the Sands Motel, Boulder City, Nevada, 1986

Date

1986

Description

A color image of the exterior of the Sands Motel, including its neon signs. Site Name: Sands Motel (Boulder City, Nev.)

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